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ADJUSTABLE DEVICE FOR CARRIAGE GANOPIES. No. 245,659.

Patented Aug. 16, 1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRIST RENNEB, JR, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

ADJUSTABLE DEVICE FOR CARRlAGE-CANOPIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,659, dated August 16, 1881.

Application filed May 24, 1881. (N 0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GHRIs'r RENNER, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Indian apolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Adjustable Device for Holding Canopies or Shades on Childrens Carriages, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for supporting a canopy or shade on childrens carriages, in which an adjustable forked ball-socket on one part of the device operates in conjunction with a ball on the square end of theupper arm; and the objects of my invention are, first, to provide aball-socketin two halves hinged together, with quartering-notches at the top to holdthe ball and the square end of the upper arm firmly in any desired position; second,to provide the inner surface of the two halves of the ball socket with a series of pin-holes to receive a pin and hold the upper arm in any position it' may he set at; third, to provide a means for clamping the two hinged halves of the ballsocket on the ball when the upper arm with its canopy or shade are placed in the desired position. These objects I accomplish by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of the entire device attached to the back of a childs carriage. Fig. 2is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section taken at the line X X of Fig.2; and Fig.4 is a longitudinal vertical section taken at the line X Z of Fig. 1, with one-half of the ball-sooket removed.

Similar letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

Arepresents a portion of the back of a childs carriage. B is the bracket part of the lower arm, 0, which is secured to the carriage-back. The arm 0 extends upward above the top of the carriage, and is provided on its rear side with a hinge-knuckle, o,to which the lower end of the arm E is pivoted at a. The upper end, 0, of the arm 0 is provided with the half D of the ball-socket. This half of the ball-socket D is provided on its side with a full notch or recess, f, which extends from the top of the part D to about midway of the socket-shell, and the edges of said socket which come in contact with the edges of the other half, D, are

provided with notchesf, one-halfas wide as the notch f, which, together with the hal f-notches f in the half D, make full notches to admit the square part 9 of the upper arm to be adjusted therein. The inner surface of the part D is provided with pin-holes r r and one-half of the pin-hole r, the other half of the pin-hole r being in the half D of the socket. Theinner surface of the part D is also provided with a con tinuation of this row of pin-holes, as shown at r r, Fig. 3.

In Fig. 4 a cross-row of pin-holes are shown. This row of holes 1 r r" r r T are formed one-half in the part D and the other half in the part D of the socket-that is, they are formed at the union of the two parts. The part D of the ball-socket has a downward-projecting arm, E, with hinge-knuckles o c, which are, as before described, pivoted to the knuckle o by the pin or bolt a. The two arms 0 and E are each provided with a bolt-hole, in which the clampingbolt 12 operates.

The ball F is provided with the upward-projecting arm H, and the lower end of said arm H is made square to fit in the recesses f f f f, as desired. The arm H and ball F have a vertical hole, 43, with a slotted opening, I, above the square part 9. In this hole is first inserted the spring P, then the pin R, which may be round or square, and the handle G for raising or lowering the pin. The lower end, B, of the pin fits in any one of the holes 1" 1" r 1' r r r r r r r, and is designed to prevent the arm H H and its canopy or shade from working out of position, even though the binding-screw b and its nut 01 may become loose.

In setting up and operating my improved adjustable canopy or shade support the part B is made fast to the carriage, the bolt 1) is loosened, and the ball F inserted in the socket D D. The arm H is then adjusted into the desired position, with its square part 9 in the center, between the ends of all the recesses f f f f, the end B of the pin resting in the hole 1" in the center of the bottom of the socket. The binding-screw b d is then made fast, and the device is in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2. If it is desired to tilt the arm H, to which the canopy (not shown) is attached, forward, then the binding-screw 1) dis loosened, the pin B is raised, and the square part g of the arm H is tilted forward into the full notch f of the part D. The pin B may be then inserted in the hole 0 or 4", as desired, and the bindingscrewb d made fast, thus holding the arm H H in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig.1. If a side tilt is required for the canopy, the same operation is repeated but the square part 9 of the arm H is tilted sidewise into the side recess, f or f as desired. lf tilted into the recess f and made fast, the arm H H is inclined sidewise, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

Having thus fully described myinvention and its mode of operation, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

p 1. The arm 0, with fastening-bracketB below, and provided with a hinge-knuckle, 1;, an upward-extending part, 0, and the half D of the ball-socket, said socket being provided with tlie'full recess f and the two half recesses or notches ff and further provided with the holes a r and the half-holes r r r r r r W",

(more or less,) combined with the half-D of the ball-socket, having similar holes, v r, and halfholes to correspond with those in the part D, the arm E, with hinge a, the binding-screw b and nut d, substantiallyas shown and described.

2. In combination with the two halves D D of the socket, constructed as described, the ball F, with arm H, having square part g, and the pin R R, substantially as specified.

3. The two halves D D of the socket, having recess f to receive and hold at various angles the square end g of the arm H,combined with the ball F, the pin-hole 1" and pin R R, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHRIST RENNER, J R.

Witnesses: I

E. O. FRINK, GEORGE H. BENNETT. 

